Marcus Branco News Today

"With this new book, published in Sweden to an excellent response last year, Karin Smirnoff, a successful journalist and novelist in her own right, has instigated a planned further trilogy [in the Millenium series]."

Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush, with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager --- and she’s being watched. Mikael Blomkvist is also heading north. He has seen better days. Millennium ma...

The Swedish writer on Nordic noir and publishing her first novel aged 53